Showing posts with label civil liberties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil liberties. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2026

Dark Days at DHS

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Many posts have discussed immigration .  Vanessa Romo at NPR : One of the last remaining checks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement an...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Protection Against Denaturalization

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Several    posts  have  discussed   naturalization  and  denaturalization .    Denaturalization is in the new s. Faiza Patel, Margy O’Herron...
Monday, July 21, 2025

The Scopes Trial

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "monkey trial" verdict. James C. Foster at the Free Speech Center: The Scopes “monke...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

What ICE Can and Cannot Do

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   immigration . Russell Contreras at Axios: ICE is tasked with enforcing the nation's immigration laws a...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus

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 Amy Coney Barrett and Neal Kaytal at the Constitution Center: The Suspension Clause protects liberty by protecting the privilege of the wri...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

And When The Last Law Was Down

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 The Trump administration is  snatching people without due process . Robert P. George on Twitter : Every single one of us has a profound int...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Rendering Innocent People

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 The Trump administration is snatching people without due process . Mother Jones reporter Noah Lanard spoke with families of those detained ...
Friday, March 28, 2025

The Rights of Noncitizens

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Many   posts  have  discussed   immigration . María Luisa Paúl at WP : Legal scholars broadly agree that the U.S. Constitution protects all ...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Deliberating about Civil Asset Forfeiture

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 From C-SPAN: Britannica defines civil asset forfeiture as a “legal process that enables a government to seize property and other assets bel...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

The Deadly Culture of Traffic Stops

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 Mike McIntire and Michael H. Keller at NYT: A hidden scaffolding of financial incentives underpins the policing of motorists in the United...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Ban Critical Race Theory?

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  Yes, and it’s not even close. Bans on teaching “divisive concepts” (the phrase many of these laws use) runs counter to decades of First Am...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on C-SPAN

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From C-SPAN: NEW LESSON: Civil Liberties and the Coronavirus (7 Clips) The U.S. Constitution provides for a balance of power between th...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Internet Freedom

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Adrian Shabaz and Allie Funk at Freedom House: Freedom on the Net is a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 65 countrie s around the...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

"Truly American"

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At the Public Religion Research Institute, Maxine Najle and Robert P. Jones report on survey data: When asked how important certain char...
Monday, February 12, 2018

The Border Patrol Can Conduct Warrantless Searches of Most Americans

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Daniel Dale at The Toronto Star : A U.S. law gives the Border Patrol the right to board and search any vehicle within a “reasonable distanc...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Standing for the Pledge

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Mike Hayes at Buzzfeed: A Houston high school student who was suspended for several days after refusing to stand during the Pledge of Alle...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Sessions Expands Asset Forfeiture

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Christopher Ingraham reports that Sessions wants to seize property of people not convicted of any crime: Attorney General Jeff Sessions o...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

The State of the First Amendment

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From the Newseum Institute The State of the First Amendment survey, conducted by the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center , tests Ame...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Free Expression: Global Views

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Pew reports on an international survey on free expression.   As other posts have noted, the United States tends to be an outlier in suppor...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Internment Camps

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A onetime candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (2004) proposes internment camps. TPM reports: U.S. General Wesley Clark f...